wilebill
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Aug 31, 2004, 12:43 AM
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Re: [bmuel] Legal Video question
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Since you haven't gotten many replies, I guess I'll chip in.
We do a few depositions - 1 or 2 a month, sometimes more, but we're starting to promote that service a little more.
For us, most of our work comes through court reporters, but we have gotten several depos direct from the lawyers. That would probably be your 2 biggest sources. However, we've also gotten a few from some nation-wide - I guess you would call them brokerage companies - who basically provide this service to court reporters and lawyers then find a local company to shoot them. Right now we're doing one for a California outfit who called us directly to shoot it. We shoot it, do some paperwork, and send them the tapes, they take care of everything else.
It can be pretty lucrative work, but very boring. You need some very good audio equipment and a good camera. I normally like to use my DSR250 since I can get up to 4.5 hours on a tape, but this national company wanted us to use MiniDV to shoot their stuff with.
We haven't gotten any certification in this field yet, since it's not required in our area, but some lawyers want a certified person to do it, so that's on our list of things to do. I'm not sure if that's true in all areas or not.
Regards,
Billy Horton
Video Image Productions
Studio & On-Location Video Production
2 NewTek VT[4.6] Editing Suites
(This post was edited by wilebill on Aug 31, 2004, 12:46 AM)
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